Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-30
- Cologne wearers at the gym, don't. Even sweat is preferable. #yyj #
- Maclean's @ColbyCosh not happy w/ @Globeandmail "swallow whales" defence of #Wente Plagiarism http://t.co/DgeI3Wcl #cdnmedia #
- Medical experts link being hit by a train to pain – Silly @GlobeandMail article on #asbestos the town http://t.co/BGcW7MJO #
- US Senate votes to shield U.S. airlines from EU's carbon scheme http://t.co/KEzAqGIt #climatechange #
- Scary MT @GernotWagner: @TheEconomist puts finger on technical, political & legal nightmare of #geoengineering http://t.co/VTQlC5bf #
- Yet another spectacular sunrise over the peninsula this morning. #yyj #
- A reality check for the "promise" of the #oilsands http://t.co/N1YpygnZ #tarsands #cdnpoli #
- "Canada is moving back into mommy's basement" Commenter on Canada-Britain joint embassies http://t.co/hzvnaToW #cdnpoli #
- .@DougSaunders Re: Embassy flap: Politicization and centralization coming back to bite the PMO. http://t.co/s2VYgGmJ #cdnpoli Via @dgardner #
- Discount rates: a boring thing you should know about (with otters!) – Important #climatechange knowledge by @drgrist http://t.co/UoaliwjW #
- #lgbt Recipients of Kenney missive wondering how government knows their sexual orientation http://t.co/WX6YRYWL #cdnpoli #
- Hubris #Fail RT @climateprogress: The Number of Things Nate Silver of @fivethirtyeight Gets Wrong About #ClimateChange http://t.co/BfpQw4r2 #
- How a broker spent $520m in a drunken stupor and moved the global oil price – Free market win! http://t.co/SF0KxE0K #
- Anyone else in Sidney with a power outage? #yyj #
- RT @308dotcom: Why the new Ipsos poll is not as good as it looks for the B.C. Liberals. #bcpoli http://t.co/LHWFZAOJ #bcndp #bclibs #
- RT @glen_mcgregor: I'll have update to story soon but it appears LGBT email from Min Jason Kenney was huge reply-all to an online… #
- Epic takedown of "The internets are using too much power" nonsense @NYTimes series http://t.co/v0IgLod2 #
- As expected. the #census killer voluntary survey showed widely varying response rates by community http://t.co/Iulf654N #cdnpoli #
- Dear @bc_transit For the 25147st time, please send double deckers to meet the ferry. #yyj #
- Housing homeless cheaper, more effective than status quo: (Yet another) study http://t.co/YQHlR6nm #cdnpoli #
- Via @AntoniaZ: Report: @globeandmail takes action on allegations against #wente http://t.co/kZ9wK01i #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #
- No such thing as too many tweets 🙂 RT @climatebrad: Wow — I just crossed the 15,000 tweet threshold. #toomanytweets #
- Getting so used to seeing spectacular sunrises every day. Thanks #yyj #
- Exactly how corrupt are US hospitals? @nytimes on deliberate cost-padding and over-billing http://t.co/LgGpzZWl #
- #India Seeks Its First $5 Bln Stake in Canada's #OilSands http://t.co/czeAuwu5 #tarsands #cdnpoli via @InsideClimate #
- Male job seekers in science rated higher, offered higher $$ than women with identical resumes http://t.co/aAPU3CJE #genderbias #
- Our new Harper govt normal: the mockery of democracy – @GlobeandMail http://t.co/0owM17Ac #cdnpoli #
- Feel bad for this bus driver, found 40% at fault for not being able to "anticipate" ped would wander on to road http://t.co/U2TKp7eW #yyj #
- Crazy. RT @mattyglesias: Foxconn only gets $8 per iPhone, while Apple earns over $300 in operating margin: http://t.co/a0BhxXlj #
- . @cfax1070 instead of putting out a general notice like this, Saanich PD could list serial numbers so people can still buy used? #
- Oil giant Total warns against oil drilling in #Arctic http://t.co/ttRzA9Wb #
- RT @308dotcom: ThreeHundredEight [new post]: Tories, NDP tied in Abacus poll. #cdnpoli http://t.co/MeRNlMGD #cdnpoli #
- Wall Street Journal Op-Ed 81% Wrong, Fox News 93% wrong on #climatechange news http://t.co/Ify1A9u7 Rupert Murdoch #
- RT @CBCCanada: Justin Trudeau to run for Liberal leadership http://t.co/6opPFhFp dynasty #FTW #cdnpoli #
- CRD must find consensus on transit: Minister Mary Polak, using concerns raised as excuse to do nothing #bcpoli #yyjtransit #
- "Romnesia: the ability of very rich to forget the context in which they made their money": @guardian http://t.co/ZBTIAeAj via @askessler #
- Not surprising at all that US college entrance SAT scores correlate heavily with parent income http://t.co/tUsKYzDw #
- RT @kevinsmcarthur: 30 minutes left in the #CIRA election. If you've not voted. Vote now. #
- RT @ghoberg If you need more evidence that BC "parliamentary" government is completely dysfunctional, see @VaughnPalmer http://t.co/OOkaZB45 #
- RT @wildernews: Gateway pipeline faces endangered species litigation http://t.co/UL3LXnj8 via @cbcnewsbc @ecojustice_ca #tarsands #oilsands #
- 100 mln will die by 2030 from #climatechange inaction: @Reuters http://t.co/76vSlmaW 90% in developing countries. #
- You will eat more identically sized cookies if you’re told they’re ‘medium’ instead of ‘large’ http://t.co/xNFEYoCM #
- RT @bradplumer: 43% of Americans who've received unemployment insurance say they've never used a government program: http://t.co/9J1H9mdl #
- RT @CBCSmart: #UBCM2012 delegates vote in favour of resolution calling for decriminalization/taxation of marijuana. #
- Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Linda McQuaig, the Council of Canadians annual conference in Nanaimo, British… #
- RT @jarrahpenguin: Thanks to all MPs going in to vote NO on #M312 and protect women's constitutional rights. #cdnpoli #cdnfem #
- RT @l_stone: Polievre, Lake, Gallant and Ablonczy support #m312 #cdnpoli #cdnfem #
- RT @kady: Now the front bench: Penashue, Ambrose, Van Loan, Shea, Ritz, Kenney — and possibly another. The applause drowned it out. #m312 #
- via @peggynashndp: Several #LPC voting with CPC in support of #M312 #cdnfem #cdnpoli #
- RT @LibbyDavies: #M312 defeated: for 91; opposed 203. I am very glad it was defeated by a sizable majority #cdnfem #cdnpoli #
- RT @kady: It's fair to say that Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose was probably the most surprising of the cabinet yeas. #m312 #cdnpoli #
- RT @jordynmarcellus: Question to ask all current and future #LPCldr candidates: would you have whipped the #m312 vote? Inquiring minds. #LPC #
- Pipeline development 'top of mind’ in Harper’s budget bill: ‘secret’ records http://t.co/m6PkWS5I #cdnpoli #oilsands: @mikedesouza #
- Can't wait to read. The Energy of Slaves – Andrew Nikiforuk | Octopus Books http://t.co/0VtKYN3B #
- Government matters — a lot — when it comes to Canadian income inequality: @Macleansmag http://t.co/W09XQqF2 #cdnpoli #
- Oh man, yet another beautiful sunrise in #yyj .. #
- The @NYtimes: Undocumented is avoidable euphemism for immigrants, funny how many euphemisms they use for "lie" http://t.co/AekKsGCZ #
- RT @jerrilyn_dot_ca: Resolution A8 being debated on the floor at #ubcm2012 oil tanker traffic. #tarsands #oilsands #bcpoli #abpoli #
- RT @lisahelps: #saanich councillor Vic Derman says "these are dangerous and difficult waters to navigate." #ubcm2012 #A8 #tarsands #oilsands #
- RT @WCELaw: Union of BC Municipalities just voted to oppose oil tankers expansion on whole coast of BC #bcpoli #cdnpoli #Enbridge #ubcm2012 #
- RT @lisahelps: On lobbying the province to create per-bag levy for use of plastic bags. #UBCM2012 defeats, narrowly. I voted in favour. #
- Goes without saying that modest bag levies greatly reduce plastic bag use, see Ireland, 30c- 94% reduction http://t.co/r1revU6h @lisahelps #
- .@craigmcinnes You're press, if you think the balanced budget law is a hoax, you can report criticism of the law repeal using that knowledge #
- Clark should be fixing the legislature "sickness", not complaining about it: @timescolonist http://t.co/GejhIu0H #bcpoli #
- .@kevinsmcarthur Congratulations, hope you and @MGeist will be a strong voice for an open, neutral internet at #CIRA #
- RT @keithbaldrey: Adrian Dix draws big crowd at #ubcm12 and promises to play nice in politics. @GlobalBC Noon news Today #bcpoli #
- MT @BillTieleman: 13 of BC's 21 Conservative MPs voted for #M312 anti-abortion bill – listed at http://t.co/dGjjY4Wd #bcpoli #cdnpoli #CPC #
- RT @guydauncey: Arctic Methane Release: The End Of The World As We Know It? http://t.co/C4uslRG3 via @thinkprogress #
- What @GlobeandMail did not mention about Netanyahu Iran cartoon nuke threat: He said something similar in 1992. http://t.co/j8RD45jC #
- Pipeline Violations Poorly Enforced: Former #Transcanada Engineer http://t.co/Ccmgcusd #tarsands #oilsands #
- The prime minister needs a history lesson: @CFLHorgan at @iPoliticsCA http://t.co/nj57i0xN #cdnpoli #
- #climatechange to make India temperatures soar, monsoon more intense and erratic http://t.co/6kkOPpGw #
- Peter Kent ignores Environment Canada tips to describe impact of #climatechange http://t.co/YGiXCEB0 #cdnpoli @mikedesouza #
- MT @a_macleod_tyee: #ubcm2012 passed motion asking BC to establish a shuttle bus between northern towns for Highway of Tears safety. #bcpoli #
- Classic Christy Clark, no money for transit, but unlimited $$$ for various road and tunnel building #bcpoli http://t.co/DsQ7m6rB #
- US credit scores offered to "cnsumers" not the same as ones used for decisions – What's the story in Canada? http://t.co/S3xtQky4 #
- RT @thepatmeister: Massey tunnel use drops 7.4%/4yrs, TransLink ridership up 6.6%/1yr, which gets new funding? Massey?! #bcpoli #
- RT @davidmwessel N'Yorker Netanyahu Caption Contest: The Winners "We cannot let Iran acquire Christmas tree ornaments" http://t.co/e7ZWpgBt #
- RT @iglikaivanova: Read why @SethDKlein thinks @adriandix is right to scrap the balanced budget legislation. http://t.co/SiRgGfo5 #bcpoli #
- Also good to point out that @SethDKlein mentions his opposition to the balanced budget law when introduced by the NDP in 2000 #bcpoli #
- BC LDB privatization cancelled: BCGEU http://t.co/fnhpLt3R #bcpoli #
- The Natural Gas Lobbyist Rush is on in British Columbia – @desmogblog http://t.co/eXNsEO9c #fracking #bcpoli #
- RT @mediacoop: NDP’s Mulcair throws support behind West-to-East oil pipeline – The Globe and Mail http://t.co/4cPo6gy8 #tarsands #oilsands #
- RT @globalbc: @BCGEU reaches tentative deal after strikes, overtime ban: http://t.co/wNkGkKWQ #bcpoli #
- Appears #BCLibs folded on liquor distribution privatization and bundled it into BCGEU contract for spin http://t.co/dJlW4uAQ #bcpoli #
- The College Rankings Racket: Joe Nocera on subjective rankings and their effect on affordability @NYTimes http://t.co/mlfbkT9C #
- Transportation: U.S. (and therefore, Canada) lags in a global race for fuel efficiency http://t.co/v6nSaV2j #
- Justin Trudeau’s success grounded in hard work – @GlobeandMail http://t.co/BELq5MQ2 Parental privilege incidental #cdnpoli #
- Melting icecap puts Europe’s woes in perspective -Thanks @ereguly, we need more of what really matters http://t.co/9PDPoOdB #
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